412 Royal Irish Academy. 



Gwynn reports that lie hopes to publish another instalment of the 

 Dindsenchas Poems in a couple of months ; the text and translation for 

 this have long been in type, but the commentary was unavoidably 

 delayed by the necessity of preparing the course of lectures Just 

 completed. After the publication of this second volume, Professor 

 Grwynn considers that it will be best to postpone fiu'ther printing 

 until he shall have time to collate and translate the entire series of 

 poems. The whole number of lines probably exceeds 10,000; and 

 there are many questions as to the text and the date of the poems, 

 etc., which cannot be treated adequately until the collection has been 

 studied as a whole, and such study he has found to be impossible 

 whilst his time was largely occupied by the process of correcting the 

 proof-sheets of the instalment now being printed. With the per- 

 mission of the Council, therefore. Professor Gwynn will not attempt 

 to publish anything beyond the volume now at Press until he has 

 completed his preparations for editing the entire collection. 



Since the date of the last Report the following Publications of the 

 Academy have been issued : — 



Transactions, vol. xxxi. 



Part 11. — " On Metamorphic Eocks in Eastern Tyrone and 

 Southern Donegal." By Grenville A. J. Cole, f.g.s. 



Part 12. — "Further Developments of the Geometrical Theory of 

 Six Screws." By Sir Robert S. Ball, ll.d., f.e.s. 



Part 13. — " Notes on the High Crosses of Moone, DrumclifE, 

 Termonfechin, and Killamery." By the late Margaret Stokes, Hon. 

 M.E.i.A. Edited by T. J. Westropp, m.a. 



And 



Part 14. — " The Ancient Ports of Ireland: being a contribution 

 towards our knowledge of their types, affinities, and structural 

 features." By Thomas Johnson Westropp, m.a. 



will be laid on the table to-day, with which Part, Vol. xixi. is- 

 now complete. 



